The mortal remains of Minister for Cooperation and Sugar H.S. Mahadeva Prasad were laid to rest with full State honours at his farmhouse at Halahalli in Gundlupet taluk of Chamarajanagar district on Wednesday.
The last rites were performed by Prasad’s son Ganesh Prasad as per their religious traditions.
Earlier, a large number of people gathered at Halahalli to pay their last respects to Prasad, who died in his sleep in Chikkamagaluru on Tuesday.
The mortal remains of Prasad were taken from his residence in Mysuru to Gundlupet on Tuesday night. The body was kept for public viewing at D. Devaraj Urs Ground till 11.15 p.m. and shifted to his ancestral residence at Halahalli, where it was kept overnight. On Wednesday morning, the body was kept at a ground in Halahalli, where the public paid their last respects.
A large number of people, including Chief Minister Siddaramaiah and his Cabinet colleagues, the former Chief Minister B.S. Yeddyurappa, and Karnataka Planning Board Deputy Chairman C.M. Ibrahim, paid their last respects.
Later, Prasad’s mortal remains were laid to rest next to the graves of his father and mother.
